MOSCOW, 23 Jun. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has decided to uphold the appeal filed by the Russian Weightlifting Federation (FTAR) against the decision to exclude Russians from participating in elections to the governing bodies of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), according to an official press release from CAS The .IWF had previously decided to bar Russia's candidates from running in the elections. Maxim Agapitov, the president of the FTA, claimed the positions of the organization's president, vice president, general secretary and member of the executive committee. Russians Alexander Kishkin and Dmitry Chernogorov ran for various IWF committees. The court reversed the decisions and stated that there were no grounds for disqualifying Russian candidates for the elections. Elections to the governing bodies of the IWF will be held at the congress of the organization in Tirana on June 25-26. legal notice restricting the ability to participate in IWF elections. In its decision, the commission referred to the fact that Russia has 6 or more anti-doping rule violations in weightlifting in 4 years, for which a decision was made on ineligibility for a period of more than 3 months.
